Posted on 11/08/2009 6:11:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As an army psychiatrist treating soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Major Nidal Malik Hasan had front row seat on the brutal toll of war. It is too early to know exactly what may have triggered his murderous shooting rampage Thursday at Fort Hood — Hasan is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 32 others before he was wounded by a police officer — but it is not uncommon for therapists treating soldiers with Post Trumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.) to be swept up in a patient's displays of war-related paranoia, helplessness and fury.
In medical parlance it is known as "secondary trauma", and it can afflict the families of soldiers suffering from P.T.S.D. along with the health workers who are trying to cure them. Dr. Antonette Zeiss, Deputy Chief of Mental Health Services for Veteran Affairs, while not wishing to talk about the specific case of the Fort Hood slayings, explained to TIME that: "Anyone who works with P.T.S.D. clients, hears their stories will be profoundly affected."
It's entirely possible that other factors may have acted as a trigger for Hasan's alleged killing spree. The army major was a devout Muslim who reportedly had been harassed because of his religion and had developed strong objections to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But he was also due to be shipped out to Afghanistan, drawing him closer to the terrible scenes described in detail by his patients. At army hospitals dealing with P.T.S.D. patients, the staff is required to periodically fill out a 'resiliency' questionnaire that's supposed to gauge how well theyr'e coping with the burden of their patients' emotional and psychological demands. "It takes its toll on people," says one officer at a Colorado military hospital. "You cannot be un-affected by the terrible things these soldiers have undergone."
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Notice how Time Magazine is holding on to its Hasan narrative for dear life. Why can’t they use the “T” word ?
I wonder if the real trigger was the shooting of that radical imam in Detroit the prior week.
Bu**shit!!!!!
Terrorist who should have been outed before his rampage but the PC crowd kept it from happening.
I was on post during the lockdown and I knew what this guy was.
I think Obamas Salute at Dover last week was the signal for sleepers to begin jihad
Who cares boil his butt in bacon fat cut the excuses.
Tim McGirk. The puke that “broke” the Haditha “massacre”.
He never met an enemy of America that he didn’t love instantly.
How long will they repeat this? Is there any evidence of this? As far as I know, the military is terribly PC -- if you harass a religious or racial minority, your career is over instantly. Unless someone has presented hard evidence, I think it is ludicrous to assert that Hasan was harassed.
Based on the hard evidence of what he did last week, I feel confident asserting that he was a Muslim terrorist who hated the USA.
Leave it to Time to find a reason for murder.
“secondary trauma”
How about stopping this pussy footing around.
Radical Muzzies declared war on us. Long time ago
At the beginning of mankind, Who was the wild Dog?
Wow, the first-ever case of contagious PTSD!
These people are absolutely shameless in their bend-over-backward attempts to disconnect this massacre from Islam.
how about reporting that this president does not care what so ever about the threats this country faces, the man cannot even use the word terrorist and would rather give shout outs.
sickening that not even 10 years after thousand die the so called media and idiotic voters voted in a man who cares little about this country or even foreign policy.
I missed that. It’s the taliban party boy himself.
This is BS, the man was already preaching THIS:
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At Walter Reed, as an Army psychiatrist, Hasan was supposed to give a “grand round” — a medical lecture. Instead, he treated medical personnel to a dawah session, trying to frighten them into Islam with threats of hell.
Hasan made four assertions about the Koran:
1. “If you don’t believe, you are condemned to hell” — Koran 4:140; Koran 9:49; Koran 9:68; Koran 9:73
2. If you don’t believe, “your head is cut off” — Koran 8:12; Koran 47:4
3. If you don’t believe, “you’re set on fire” — Koran 33:64; Koran 48:13; Koran 76:4
4. If you don’t believe, “burning oil is burned down your throat” — Koran 18:29; Koran 44:43-46
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I don’t think “trauma” caused him to start shooting!
Admit the truth. He suffered from Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. It is the first case known...
*** It is too early to know exactly what may have triggered his murderous shooting rampage Thursday at Fort Hood***
I know! I Know! Oh man, it was right on the tip of my tongue! It’s...Oh gee! I feel as if it was right here!
Something to do with mosques and mo ham id...infidels and hacking off heads and hands...
I give up! I just can’t place a finger on it. ;-(
No, no! You don’t understand: He just couldn’t face going to war and committing atrocities, so he murdered and maimed his fellow soldiers in cold blood....
Uh...never mind.
Wow, the first-ever case of contagious PTSD!Good catch!
This is absolute garbage! This guy had negative feelings for infidels from the get go. You have to have compassion in order to be traumatized by another person’s trauma. The left will try anything in order to not believe or do the right thing.
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